TRENTON — Slain Mike Whitaker came across as a responsible family man — kids’ pictures and health cards in his wallet — as a detective answered a prosecutor’s questions yesterday at the trial of the victim’s girlfriend.

Under questioning from Assistant Mercer County Prosecutor Skylar Weissman, Detective Marc Berkeyheiser of the Trenton police went through the victim’s wallet and pulled out credit cards in his name, a Pennsylvania driver’s license and Pennsy papers showing legal possession of the gun that ended up killing him.

But defense lawyer Steve Slaven countered the good dad image by getting Berkeyheiser to testify that he also found a black pouch holding 18 pornographic DVDs when he searched Whitaker’s silver BMW after he allegedly was shot to death by girlfriend Ivelis Turell on April 30, 2007.

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Turell, 34, is on trial before Mercer Superior Court Judge Pedro Jimenez and a jury panel of nine women and seven men. She is claiming self-defense, that she was repeatedly beaten, choked and made to play Russian Roulette by the victim.

They lived with sons aged 2 and 6 in a new house on Trenton’s Ferry Street. She drove a Mercedes. But his spending and addiction to porn and gunplay made her life miserable, according to her former lawyer and audio testimony played in court.

During their final argument, according to testimony, he was shot through the right arm by a 9mm bullet that passed through his upper chest and lodged under the opposite arm. It happened in an upstairs bedroom while their toddler slept in the bed.

She somehow shot herself through her left neck and shoulder seconds later after walking downstairs. And at least one other shot went off downstairs from the apparently hair-triggered gun, which Whitaker carried a pink receipt for. Prosecutors didn’t bring up what he paid for the gun.

Assistant Mercer Prosecutor Amy Devenny, meanwhile, tried to head off any defense argument about medications addling her mind after Turell reached Capital Health’s Fuld hospital for treatment of her gunshot wound.

She called the Capital Health chief of surgery, Dr. Louis F. D’Amelio, to testify that Turell was given morphine and other medications by EMTs and the hospital, but nothing that would have kept her from speaking with and understanding the detectives talking to her in the ER.

“She was cognitively intact at the time,” the doctor told Devanny. But Slaven did get D’Amelio to note records indicating she was disoriented and breathing shallow in the minutes after both gunshots.

The case could turn on Turell’s state of mind because, according to testimony, she told cops conflicting stories about what happened in the hours after the fatal shooting.